We designed a smaller, high-quality, integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package. With a variety of fun colors, there's sure to be one to suit your style.

See your life safe in one place.

WD SmartWare software - A visual control center with a single screen view of all your data. From it you can back up, retrieve, and secure your files.

Password protection.

An extra level of security with password protection and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.

Overview

The world's most popular portable drive is now smaller than ever. And it's smarter than ever with automatic, continuous backup software and password protection. Choose your favorite fun color to look smart and stylish.

Our smallest portable drive ever -
We're experts in portable storage, so we designed a smaller, high-quality, integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package. With a variety of fun colors, there's sure to be one to suit your style.

WD SmartWare -
See your life safe in one place.

See your backup as it happens – Seeing is believing. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup.

Protect your data automatically – Relax, your data is secure. Automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file.

Bring back lost files effortlessly – Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you've lost all your data or just overwritten an important file.

Take control – Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from the WD SmartWare control center.

USB 2.0 interface -
Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed.

Planet friendly -
We designed a small retail box from recycled materials to minimize waste. We encourage you to recycle it.

Compatibility

Formatted NTFS

Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7

Mac OS® X Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard™ (requires reformatting)

Package Contents

Ultra-portable hard drive

WD SmartWare software (pre-loaded)

USB cable

Quick Install Guide

Reviews

Specifications

Performance Specifications

Serial Transfer Rate

USB 2.0

Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0)

480 Mb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications

Capacity

500 GB

Interface

USB 2.0

Physical Dimensions

English

Height

0.60 Inches

Length

3.2 Inches

Width

4.3 Inches

Weight

0.44 Pounds

Metric

Height

15 mm

Length

83 mm

Width

110.0 mm

Weight

0.20 kg

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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